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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Four-vehicle wreck on I-35 slows traffic
An accident involving an 18-wheeler and three other vehicles is causing traffic slowdowns in the northbound lanes of Interstate 35.
According to Austin police, the accident was reported at 6:41 p.m. in the 1600 block of I-35 south, near Woodland Avenue. At 7:30 p.m., a police official said, wreckers had been dispatched to the scene, but no ambulances had been called, indicating there were no serious injuries.
Police did not have additional details about the cause of the accident.
Leander boy attacked by mountain lion hospitalized again
A Leander boy is back in the hospital after his doctor suspected the wounds from a mountain lion attack had become infected.
Six-year-old Rivers Hobbs was snatched from his mother’s hand by a mountain lion that clamped its jaws on his face at Big Bend National Park last Sunday night.
Hobbs was walking back to his family’s hotel room from the restaurant at Chisos Mountains Lodge with his parents and brother at about 8 p.m. when the mountain lion attacked. It dragged Rivers into a bush next to the walkway, releasing him after the boy’s father stabbed the lion’s chest with a pocketknife.
Kristi Harris, the boy’s mother, said Rivers was admitted to Scott & White Healthcare in Temple on Thursday. Doctors there are running tests to determine what bacteria has infected Rivers and whether his salivary gland is damaged, she said.
Harris said he may need surgery, his third operation since the attack. She said the experience has been hard on her and her husband, Jason Hobbs, but that Rivers is in good spirits.
“I don’t think the kids really fully understand what happened,” she said. “Of course we do, so that makes it very difficult as a parent.”
Southbound I-35 ramp at Oltorf closed due to collision
Update, 2:15 p.m.: The ramp and frontage road have reopened, according to the Austin Police Department.
Earlier: The southbound ramp of Interstate 35 at Oltorf Street and two lanes of the southbound frontage road are closed due to a collision, according to the Austin Police Department.
One person involved in the collision was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, one official said.
No further information is yet available.
